Join us for this webinar hosted by the Nashville Chapter to hear some of Nashville’s publishers discuss the role of music publishers in artist development.
Speakers:
• Robert Carlton, Senior VP Development, Smacksongs
• Zebb Luster – Originally from Fort Myers, Florida, Luster moved to Nashville in 2015 and started the lifestyle and apparel brand YNOT, morphing into the largely successful songwriters round YNOT Wednesday. Luster joined River House Artists as a publishing manager in 2017 before being promoted to creative director/A&R in 2019. Luster has helped grow the RHA roster by helping sign songwriters like Nicolette Hayford, Driver Williams, Drew Parker, Jordan Rowe, Neil Medley and more.
• Chris Van Belkom is the Vice President of Combustion Music and oversees the writer roster of Jameson Rodgers, Brett Tyler, Matt Jenkins, Matthew West, AJ Pruis and Kolby Cooper, among others.
Moderator:
• Tim Hunze, VP, Publishing at Big Machine Music